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As  discusses, the technology required to deliver e-business requires constant re-evaluation for upgrading or replacement as the power of ICT increases. This implies that continuing investment is required to maintain, let alone enhance, an economy's ICT capital.

As the amount of email in circulation has increased, some have seen potentially substantial economic costs being incurred by organizations

Our focus in this Chapter is on some of the economic implications for industries, organizations and individuals

Economists have developed useful ways of thinking about the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services by individuals and firms (microeconomics).

Why should these broader effects be important to organizations and why do we devote an entire chapter to them? Organizations need to have an accurate appreciation of the extent to which technologies such as the Internet can transform the marketplaces in which they operate

The design and development of digitized products in sectors such as prerecorded music, movies, and entertainment has had a transformational effect on an existing market structure hitherto dominated by physical goods

We can see the statistical evidence of country differences in Figure 2.2, which shows the proportion of total domestic fixed capital investment relating to ICTin the US compared to the UK

Look at the consequences of the dot.com boom and bust in the figures for both countries. But also see the extent to which the US is consistently ahead of the UK in this respect, although the UK appears to be converging in total ICT investment terms by the end of the reporting period

Can you think of ways in which you might measure the net effect of email on your personal productivity during the day? What steps might you take to improve that productivity?